FLIX INSTITUTE: Why use Royalty Free photos?
Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 06:13 pmWARNING28 posts in thread
FLIX INSTITUTE: Why use Royalty Free photos?
Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 06:13 pmA good friend of mine was once a student at a Brisbane Makeup School called Flix Institute of Makeup. After seeing my friend being taken for a ride by this place and left not happy with the quality of this school, I decided to do something that not many people have done before and RESEARCHED this place!
I feel that it is important to reveal to anyone wanting to learn this craft what I have found and what this unprofessional place falsely displays to promote themselves.
Firstly Flix Institute is a Makeup Training School which is run by a lady named Angela Waugh that also runs a business called Angel IFX that supplies makeup and hair services for weddings. The one thing that I would firstly like to bring up is that photos on the Flix Institute web site and the photos on the Angel IFX web site are "ROYALTY FREE IMAGES" this means that the photos of makeup that are obviously displayed to showcase what they can do are not and have not been created by Angela Waugh, any trainer or any artist or student! All these photos have been bought. This is a major red light to start with. On the Angel IFX website the following is said:
"Over the last six years, Angel IFX have grown to become one of Australia’s largest hair and makeup Bridal Agencies. Our fully Qualified and experienced makeup artists and Hairstylists have all been trained by leading academies world wide, and have been called upon by such magazines as CLEO, Ralph and Black and White magazine to name but a few. Angel IFX consists of award winning and Internationally renowned Artists whose work has also features in such productions as Lord Of the Rings, Harry Potter, Anaconda II and House of Wax, and have also been requested personally by Paris Hilton and Kate Hudson, among others, for various red Carpet Events".
If this place has been running for 6 years and has "INTERNATIONAL" artists, why is this site full of royalty free images? I would think that they should have enough photos of there own work to show case there skills??
With Flix Institute, the last place I would want to learn from is a place that displays only 10 photos of students work and the rest Royalty Free??
Below are the links to the royalty free photos used on Flix Institute and Angel IFX web sites.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3747159_the_beautiful_young_blonde.php?id=3747159
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/relationships/weddings/brides/3084425_the_bride.php?id=3084425
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/3977047_bride_and_groom.php?id=3977047
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/gender/female/women/3428801_pearls.php?id=3428801
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/object/4021853_bride_in_the_limousine.php?id=4021853
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4366561
Nice try
Thu, 15 May 2008, 06:05 pmWalter Plinge
First of all, I know exactly who you are, where you live and other details which I'll grant you the courtesy of leaving out. Acting the way your acting has just guaranteed reprocussions, especially considering your identity.
Second of all the only reason I haven't made your details public is out of courtesy, but honestly if you are dumb enough to push me, then hell you are just asking for it...
You clearly a total hypocrite. You are a former student of FLIX yet you claim you have had nothing to do with Angela - (well actually that may be right since, Angela didn't teach a god damn thing).
And yes I agree YOU must have real problems in your own life to be such a bitter person - I mean the fact that your tirade about Shay not being the golden boy and working in woolies clearly is the voice of a bitter person.
Giving a fair go? What a joke, cough ahem *hypocrite* I won't even dignify that with a response.
People are being cruel to Angela because she screwed them, me included out of money. Does that make sense to you, she conned us out of A LOT of money. And god help me if you say that we have no-one to blame but ourselves then you really are complete moron.
As for my life, actually now that you ask, its fantastic. Aside from having to make back the money that Angela screwed me out of, life is peachy...i mean I won't gloat, that is not the purpose of my postings... but lets just say everythin is A OK..
I comment with such zeal because people need to know the truth. Even though the institute has been shut down by the education authorities, People still need to know how harsh trying to get into this business can me, and how many 23-24 year old kids like Angela there are trying to pull a con on the innocent. Angela has ripped off more than just me and deserves all the bad press she is getting, if one person reads this and is duly warned about her, then thats all that matters.
And as for you, I wouldn't really frame that piece of toilet paper you have for a certificate. If you wanna make something of yourself then go out there and do it.
Its a smarter move to know it all then go in blind.
Luck don't cut it, kid - didn't they teach you that at FLIX?
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